When Friends are tested

“When Friends are Tested.” A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price It was yet another busy day in the office.  Carla had been much happier at work since Mandy arrived.  They could do lunch on a Friday at the cafe around the corner, though they had to adhere to a strictly one- hour…

Takeaway food from Brixtron prison

Brixton prison in South London is cooking, selling, and delivering takeaway meals during the pandemic, as the prison has a professional-standard restaurant, the Clink, which teaches culinary skills to prisoners – in order to help them get jobs when they are released. But the Covid-19 pandemic has stopped guests coming inside the prison to eat…

Shakuntala Devi : mathematical genius

Indian biopic movie “Shakuntala Devi’s director Anu Menon narrates through the eyes of Shakuntala’s daughter Anupama Banerjee, how a phenomenon was born at the cost of the mother and wife. Shakuntala Devi is a drama about a mother-daughter relationship and beyond portraying Shakuntala Devi as a flawless genius and a flawed person, highlighting the importance…

Tui to shut 166 stores with 900 job losses

The UK’s largest tour operator Tui is set to shut 166 High Street stores in the UK and Ireland with 900 job losses after changes in customers behaviour including a shift to online. They hoped to keep on 630 workers in a mix of sales and home-working roles and in remaining stores. 350 retail stores…

Scientists decode buzz of the bee

For the first time, scientists have decoded the buzz of a bee, revealing they are much noisier when pollinating flowers than they are when they make sounds for other reasons. Bees buzz loudly while they are pollinating flowers as it vibrates their bodies, shaking the plant and allowing more polling to cling to them. In…

Thriving tiger population

India is now home to nearly 3, 000 tigers, a third more than it had four years ago according to the tiger census.  India is home to around 70 per cent of the world’s tiger s and now one of the biggest and most secure habitats of the tiger. Wayanad a wildlife sanctuary in Kerala.…

Perseverance’s mission to Mars

Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It will spend seven months travelling to Mars before landing in Jezero Crater near the planet’s equator.  Perseverance rover will travel 314 million miles to the Martian surface. Project scientist Katie Stack Morgan says they believe the rover will be able to find a diverse set of…

Fix your Bike website crashes in England

The website offering £50 bike repair vouchers in England crashed after the government scheme launched on Tuesday. Fix Your Bike vouchers worth £50, 000 were due to be made available online at 23:45 BST on a first-come, first-served basis. The site was back up before 04:00 BST but later paused and by 09:00 BST vouchers…

Fourth covid-19 vaccine deal signed for 60m doses

GSK-Sanofi vaccine A fourth coronavirus vaccine deal has been signed by the UK government, securing up to 60 million doses of an experimental treatment being developed by  GSK and Sanofi. The government has already signed up for 100 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and another 90 million doses of…

3bn animals killed or harmed in Australian bushfire

According to World Wild Fund 2.46bn reptiles, 180m birds, 143m mammals, 51m frog were killed or displaced during Australia’s devastating bushfires of the past year. The findings meant it was one of the “worst wildlife disasters in modern history” said the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) which commissioned the report. Mega blazes swept across…